Jeremiah 49
1 Against the sons of Ammon. Thus says the Lord: “Does Israel have no sons? Or is there no heir for him? Then why has Milcom possessed the inheritance of Gad, and why have his people lived in his cities?
アンモンびとについて、主はこう言われる、「イスラエルには子がないのか、世継ぎがないのか。どうしてミルコムがガドを追い出して、その民がその町々に住んでいるのか。
2 Therefore, behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will cause the noise of battle to be heard over Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. And it will be scattered into a tumult, and her daughters will be burned with fire. And Israel shall possess those who had possessed him, says the Lord.
主は言われる、それゆえ、見よ、アンモンびとのラバを攻める戦いの叫びを、わたしが聞えさせる日が来る。ラバは荒塚となり、その村々は火で焼かれる。そのときイスラエルは自分を追い出した者どもを追い出すと主は言われる。
3 Wail, O Heshbon! For Ai has been devastated. Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Wrap yourselves with haircloth. Mourn and circle the hedges. For Milcom will be led into the transmigration: his priests and his leaders together.
ヘシボンよ嘆け、アイは滅ぼされた。ラバの娘たちよ呼ばわれ。荒布を身にまとい、悲しんで、まがきのうちを走りまわれ。ミルコムとその祭司およびつかさが共に捕え移されるからだ。
4 Why have you gloried in the valleys? Your valley has flowed away, O delicate daughter, for you had confidence in your treasures, and you were saying, ‘Who can approach me?’
不信の娘よ、あなたはなぜ自分の谷の事を誇るのか。あなたは自分の富に寄り頼んで、『だれがわたしに攻めてくるものか』と言う。
5 Behold, I will lead a terror over you, says the Lord, the God of hosts, from those who are all around you. And you will be dispersed, each one from before your sight. There will be no one who will gather together those who are fleeing.
主なる万軍の神は言われる、見よ、わたしはあなたの上に恐れを臨ませる、それはあなたの周囲の者から来る。あなたは追われて、おのおの直ちに他人に続き、逃げる者を集める人もない。
6 And after this, I will cause the captives of the sons of Ammon to return, says the Lord.”
しかし、のちになって、わたしはアンモンびとを再び栄えさせると、主は言われる」。
7 Against Idumea. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman? Counsel has perished from the sons. Their wisdom has become useless.
エドムの事について、万軍の主はこう言われる、「テマンには、もはや知恵がないのか。さとい者には計りごとがなくなったのか。その知恵は消えうせたのか。
8 Flee and turn your backs! Descend into the chasm, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I have brought the perdition of Esau over him, the time of his visitation.
デダンに住む者よ、逃げよ、のがれよ、深い所に隠れよ。わたしがエサウの災難を彼の上に臨ませ、彼を罰する時をこさせるからだ。
9 If those who gather grapes had passed by you, would they not have left behind a cluster? If there were thieves in the night, they would seize what was enough for themselves.
ぶどうを集める者があなたの所に来たならば、すこしの実をも残さないであろうか。夜、盗びとが来たならば、自分たちの満足するだけ滅ぼさないであろうか。
10 Yet truly, I have stripped Esau bare. I have revealed his secrets, and he is not able to be concealed. His offspring has been devastated, with his brothers and his neighbors, and he himself will not exist.
しかしわたしはエサウを裸にし、その隠れる所を現したので、彼はその身を隠すことができない。その子どもたちも、兄弟も、隣り人も滅ぼされる。そして彼は、いなくなる。
11 Leave behind your orphans. I will make sure that they live. And your widows will hope in me.”
あなたのみなしごを残せ、わたしがそれを生きながらえさせる。あなたのやもめには、わたしに寄り頼ませよ」。
12 For thus says the Lord: “Behold, those who judged that they would not drink the cup, will certainly drink. And so, will you be released as if you were innocent? You will not be released as if innocent. Instead, you shall certainly drink.
主はこう言われる、「もし、杯を飲むべきでない者もそれを飲まなければならなかったとすれば、あなたは罰を免れることができようか。あなたは罰を免れない。それを飲まなければならない。
13 For I have sworn by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will be a desolation, and a disgrace, and a wasteland, and a curse. And all her cities will be a perpetual wilderness.
主は言われる、わたしは自分をさして誓った、ボズラは驚きとなり、ののしりとなり、荒れ地となり、のろいとなる。その町々は長く荒れ地となる」。
14 I have heard a report from the Lord, and a legate has been sent to the nations: ‘Gather yourselves together, and go forth against her, and let us rise up to battle.’
わたしは主からのおとずれを聞いた。ひとりの使者がつかわされて万国に行き、そして言った、「あなたがたは集まり、行って彼を攻め、立って戦え。
15 For behold, I have made you little among the nations, contemptible among men.
見よ、わたしはあなたを万国のうちに小さい者とし、人々のうちに卑しめられる者とする。
16 Your arrogance has deceived you, by the pride of your heart, you who live in the caverns of the rock and who strive to take hold of the height of the hill. But even if you make your nest like that of an eagle, I will pull you down from there, says the Lord.
岩の割れ目に住み、山の高みを占める者よ、あなたの恐ろしい事と、あなたの心の高ぶりが、あなたを欺いた。あなたは、わたしのように巣を高い所に作っているが、わたしはその所からあなたを取りおろすと主は言われる。
17 And Idumea will be a desert. Everyone who passes by it will be stupefied and will hiss over all its wounds.
エドムは恐れとなる。そのかたわらを通り過ぎる者はみな恐れ、その災のために、舌打ちする。
18 Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors were overthrown, says the Lord: there will not be a man living there, and no son of man will tend it.
主は言われる、ソドムとゴモラとその隣の町々がくつがえされた時のように、そこに住む人はなく、そこに宿る人もなくなる。
19 Behold, he will ascend like a lion from the arrogance of the Jordan, against the robust beauty. For I will cause him to rush against her suddenly. And who will be the elect one, whom I may appoint over her? For who is like me? And who can endure me? And who is that pastor who can withstand my countenance?
見よ、ししがヨルダンの密林から上ってきて、じょうぶな羊のおりを襲うように、わたしは、たちまち彼らをそこから逃げ走らせ、わたしの選ぶ者をその上に立てる。だれかわたしのような者があるであろうか。だれがわたしを呼びつけることができようか。どの牧者がわたしの前に立つことができようか。
20 Because of this, listen to the counsel of the Lord, which he has undertaken concerning Edom, and to his thoughts, which he has devised concerning the inhabitants of Teman. Certainly, the little ones of the flock will cast them down, unless they scatter them with their habitation.
それゆえ、エドムに対して主が立てた計りごとと、テマンに住む者に対してしようとする事を聞くがよい。彼らの群れのうちの小さいものまでも皆、引かれて行く。彼らのおりのものもその終りを見て恐れる。
21 The earth has been shaken at the noise of their destruction. The outcry of their voice has been heard at the Red Sea.
その倒れる音を聞いて、地は震い、彼らの叫び声は紅海にも聞える。
22 Behold, he will ascend like an eagle and will fly. And he will spread his wings over Bozrah. And in that day, the heart of the strong ones of Idumea will be like the heart of a woman giving birth.”
見よ、敵はわしのように上り、すみやかに飛びかけり、その翼をボズラの上に張り広げる。その日エドムの勇士の心は子を産む女の心のようになる」。
23 Against Damascus. “Hamath has been confounded, with Arpad. For they have heard a most grievous report. They have been stirred up like the sea. Because of anxiousness, they were not able to rest.
ダマスコの事について、「ハマテとアルパデは、うろたえている、彼らは悪いおとずれを聞いたからだ。彼らは勇気を失い、穏やかになることのできない海のように悩む。
24 Damascus has been broken. She has been turned to flight. Trembling has taken hold of her. Anguish and sorrows have seized her, like a woman giving birth.
ダマスコは弱り、身をめぐらして逃げた、恐怖に襲われている。子を産む女に臨むように痛みと悲しみと彼に臨む。
25 How could they have abandoned the praiseworthy city, the city of rejoicing?
ああ、名ある町、楽しい町は捨てられる。
26 For this reason, her young men will fall in her streets. And all the men of battle will be silenced in that day, says the Lord of hosts.
それゆえ、その日に、若い者は、広場に倒れ、兵士はことごとく滅ぼされると万軍の主は言われる。
27 And I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the defensive walls of Ben-hadad.”
わたしはダマスコの城壁の上に火を燃やし、ベネハダデの宮殿を焼き尽す」。
28 Against Kedar and against the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has struck down. Thus says the Lord: “Rise up and ascend to Kedar, and lay waste to the sons of the East.
バビロンの王ネブカデレザルが攻め撃ったケダルとハゾルの諸国の事について、主はこう言われる、「立って、ケダルに向かって進み、東の人々を滅ぼせ。
29 They will seize their tabernacles and their flocks. And they will take for themselves their tents, and all their vessels, and their camels. And they will call down a terror upon them on every side.
彼らの天幕と、その羊の群れとは取られ、その垂幕とそのもろもろの器と、らくだとは彼らの所から運び去られ、人々は彼らに向かって叫ぶ、『恐ろしいことが四方にある』と。
30 Flee, go away urgently! Sit in deep pits, you who inhabit Hazor, says the Lord. For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has undertaken a counsel against you, and he has devised plans against you.
主は言われる、ハゾルに住む者よ、逃げよ、遠くさまよい行き、深い所に隠れよ。バビロンの王ネブカデレザルがあなたがたを攻める計りごとをめぐらし、あなたがたを攻める、てだてを設けたからだ。
31 Rise up, and ascend to a nation that is quiet and lives in confidence, says the Lord. They have neither gates nor bars. They dwell alone.
主は言われる、立って進み、安全な所に住むきらくな民を攻めよ、彼らは門もなく、貫の木もなく、ひとり離れて住む。
32 And their camels will be a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle will be a prey. And I will disperse, into every wind, those who have shaved their hair. And from all their confines, I will lead great destruction over them, says the Lord.
彼らのらくだは、ぶんどり物となり、家畜の群れは奪われる。わたしは、かの髪の毛のすみずみを切る者を四方に散らし、その災難を八方からこさせると主は言われる。
33 And Hazor will be a habitation for serpents, deserted even unto eternity. No man will abide there, nor will a son of man tend it.”
ハゾルは山犬のすまいとなり、いつまでも荒れ地となっている。だれもそこに住む人はなく、そこに宿る人もない」。
34 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, saying:
ユダの王ゼデキヤの治世の初めのころに、エラムの事について預言者エレミヤに臨んだ主の言葉。
35 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, and the summit of their strength.
万軍の主はこう言われる、「見よ、わたしはエラムが力として頼んでいる弓を折る。
36 And I will lead the four winds over Elam, from the four corners of heaven. And I will scatter them into all these winds. And there will be no nation to which the fugitives of Elam will not travel.
わたしは天の四方から、四方の風をエラムにこさせ、彼らを四方の風に散らす。エラムから追い出される者の行かない国はない。
37 And I will cause Elam to be terrified before their enemies and in the sight of those who seek their life. And I will lead an evil over them, the wrath of my fury, says the Lord. And I will send the sword after them, until I consume them.
主は言われる、わたしはエラムをしてその敵の前、またその命を求める者の前に恐れさせる。わたしは災をくだし、激しい怒りをその上にくだす。彼らのうしろに、つるぎを送って滅ぼし尽す。
38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and I will perish the kings and princes from there, says the Lord.
そしてわたしの位をエラムにすえ、王とつかさたちとを滅ぼすと主は言われる。
39 But in the last days, I will cause the captives of Elam to return, says the Lord.”
しかし末の日に、わたしはエラムを再び栄えさせると、主は言われる」。
